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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 1852798" data-attributes="member: 93">I think if it does happen (and sometimes it does) the DM should keep an eye open and an open mind for ideas that might help redress the balance.For example, in a 1st edition game long ago, I played a fighter who had gotten to a pretty good point with magic items.  He had some magical chainmail, a couple magical weapons (he fought with two) and a few other bits and pieces.  He faced down a Black Dragon along with the party, and through a series of horrificly bad saving throws, lost all of it.  I mean he had scraps of clothes left when we got to the end of it all.So I started wracking my brain on what to do, as a player.  I recalled that back when the PC was 2nd level, he had helped break an NPC out of the dungeon of a Baron that he was on bad terms with.  In the course of that adventure, he had found the Baron's secret treasury, and seen some of the items in it - clearly magical weapons and armor.  Of course at that level, he couldn't hope to crack the defenses.So I proposed a short solo side adventure to my DM.  I'd go back to town, get a couple of NPC thief buddies to help pick locks and such, and be back in a couple of days.  My PC knew the challenges, knew the defenses that would need to be breached, and figured it could be done.The DM let me do it - we ran it in an hour or so before the next session, and I managed to get some (reasonable) replacements for what I had lost.My assumption in any game I play in is that magic items are transitory.  They come and they go, and if you lose one, another will be just around the corner.  I expect to lose some now and then to the rigors of adventure.</blockquote>

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